Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's call for Peres and Rabin to decline their Nobel Peace Prize is based on the kind of blind self-righteouness that has thwarted the peace process in the past...
What the Israeli government realizes but the staff chooses to ignore is that Arafat is a necessary part of a peace process; it has been his willingness to sit down with Peres and Rabin that has allowed discussions to begin. The Nobel Committee offered the prize, as it has done many times in the past, not for past records, not for completion of peace (indeed, when is peace ever completed?) but in recognition of genuine efforts towards peace...
Rather than decline the prize, thus hindering the path towards peace, Peres and Rabin should welcome it as a sign that peace in the Middle East is of importance to the entire world. --Natasha H. Leland...
After that celebrated turn of phrase, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin--who has been seen, of late, pumping the flesh of men of less repute--refused to share a podium with Leibovitz. All this from an octogenarian clad in plaid, with tooth-white hair and a black yarmulke...
...occurred on Dizingoff St., the city's commercial center--is the most recent of a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the group, including the recent kidnapping and slaying of an Israeli soldier. These events have occurred in stark contrast to recent triumphs by leaders Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in promoting the Arab-Israeli peace process...